skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know bedrooms have to have windows so the fire department can pull you out of a burning building while you're asleep or whatever

When we were looking for a new house we toured one that had a bit of remodeling done. What was done was the back patio was enclosed to turn it into a room. The detail was that there was an existing bedroom that had a window onto the patio.

The solution, which I have to assume passed code, was simply to retain the bedroom window, even though it did not lead to the outdoors. So this house had an interior window.
The guy on the right would need a high tolerance for terrible food.

https://slate.com/business/2013/12/red-lobster-s-bad-food-pr...
And his soldiers could eat tanks, if necessary.

A Mongol army could have reached Paris in 2-3 days, because their troops could operate without support for a while. WW2 Germany still relied largely on horse-drawn carts for logistics, and its armies could not advance substantially faster than a Roman legion.
If you've ever handled a fire axe, you'd realize it makes a lousy weapon. It has a long handle, with a heavy head. The idea is it can build up a lot of momentum to crash through things like doors and walls.

But the long handle makes it difficult to swing in a melee, and slow to swing, and once the swing starts it will be very hard to change its arc. Hence, your target can easily sidestep it. I suppose it would be good against plate armor, but not many villains wear plate armor these days. You also have to be careful with a fire axe to not chop your foot if you miss. I don't think I've ever seen a war axe/hatchet/tomahawk anywhere near that size.

For self-defense in close quarters, a baseball bat is ideal.

P.S. I am no martial arts expert.
> People lie

Obviously taken into account - I still have no problem whatsoever identifying great developers on GitHub and I'm sure many other developers who actually code often could too. You have bigger problems if you can't tell if someone is lying or not about their abilities when all their work is visible to you. You should be able to easily tell what is theirs vs not.

> Lol, great method!

Yes people inflate their own egos and abilities - especially those who spend all their time interviewing others instead of building.

I prefer demonstrable experience for an engineer over standardized tests which tell you nothing about any real world experience: App architecture, async programming, APIs, UI, DOM, git, unit/e2e tests, any known framework or library, etc. A person who knows all those but hasn't memorized CTCI is a lot more useful than the CTCI memorizer with no evidence of work ever performed.
My VPN is for my tunnel out of my home network, not for remote networks. This is definitely a major issue if mitigations aren't implemented, but it's not relevant to all use cases for VPNs.
The AI boom has been going on for a couple years now, and Intel and AMD continue to be unwilling or unable to compete with nVidia head-to-head. Their level of incompetence borders on the implausible. Do they consider the AI developer GPU market not lucrative enough, or too far from their core competency (CPUs and cheap gaming cards only)?

Or... my pet conspiracy theory is that nVidia holds one or more critical patents, and Intel and AMD are quietly tiptoeing around it to prevent legal nuclear armageddon across the industry. This might explain why Intel and AMD both suddenly U-turned away from any kind of official CUDA compatibility: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39344815

But I guess more probably, there are just too many pointy-haired MBAs in charge of the software, and thus billions get left on the table.
Show HN: An IMDB Clone
I made an IMDB clone for fun

https://github.com/adam-ridhwan/next-imdb
What hoops do you think I'll encounter?
My guess is something to do with Find My/ offline finding. That would cause it to wake up all the time, maybe Apple thought it was worth the trade off.
There are plenty of cheap restaurants better than Red Lobster.

See https://slate.com/business/2013/12/red-lobster-s-bad-food-pr...
KILO KISH
To me, Borland Turbo Pascal / Turbo C are the apex of IDEs.
I don't buy it. Pipes are IMPOSSIBLE to increase the size? Or at some point you hit some city service with no motivation to actually provide service/infrastructure and fix the problem at that end?

I wonder if you can have septic storage for excess flow, that then releases overnight when people aren't using it. Simply time shift the maximal flow periods and maximize the flow utilization of the existing stuff.

Maybe you can use pumps to force more liquid through the pipes faster.

Or you simply put in 80 instead of 150, and find other uses for the space.

And, you know, incentivize minimal use of water.
If you talk shop with a mechanic, they're going to know pretty quickly if you actually know what you're talking about. In my experience, the same applies in our field.
Yes but also the technology at my dentists office is 20 years ahead of the medical profession.

My Dentist has 3D imaging done in seconds during every visit, 3D printers so you they have a crown done same day, lasers to prevent scarring, ultrasonics. They’re using tools, chemicals, adhesives, and methodologies that are cutting edge. I have no doubt that a decade from now they’ll be growing and implanting replacement teeth.

Meanwhile, American doctors are still arguing about the value of preventive healthcare, refuse to use diagnostic tools, scoff at MRIs and imaging, won’t prescribe new drugs (GLP-1s), and struggle to use computers. And for the privilege of dealing with this entitled, technically illiterate industry costs insane amounts of money due to the AMA monopoly and artificial shortages of doctors. It’s really the biggest scam there is.
They make the mistake of thinking the government will do a better job than individuals. When the government is often stacked with the most useless, theiving sacks of lazy crap in society and should be atleast as big a concern as any rich person.

they also confuse the negative effects of market power abuse caused wealth accumulation and wealth accumulation from improving the production possibilities frontier. we have laws called antitrust to stop the former we just need to use them a lot more like we used to post ww2 and pre 1970s. Damping the latter wealth accumulation is a really dumb idea and should be avoided.

theirideas on ingeritance tax is honestly just naive. They will capture a bunch of the upper middle class guys and the really wealthy will avoid it, as they always do. What that type of inheritance tax will do is fossilize the ultra wealthy and everhbody else
They do glide, in fact airliners have a glide ratio rivaling gliders, and substantially exceeds general aviation airplanes.
Avoid Chargebee at all costs. I've never made an architectural decision I regretted more.
Doesn't get more integrated as far as integrated development environments go when your editor is your language interpreter.
I mean, yeah that's pretty smooth, I'm not even sure I could notice it past 15/30.
Doesn't sound real.
I've typed correctly my whole life and have a lower WPM than that.
You'd need to move your fingers at superhuman speeds to achieve that with just two wingers.
And what happens when the universe runs out of pids?
I think that at the point in the workflow where you are ready to get some new changes from upstream and integrate with your local ones, you're probably going to have all your outstanding work in a commit.

A rebase that is part of a pull, together with auto-stash, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I've never run into the problem of not being able to rebase due to uncommitted changes, except in two situations:

- suddenly wanting to rewrite something in the branch, unrelated to the in-progress work.

- working in a badly structured project whose builds alter tracked files
> "I think the central risk to Palantir, America and the world is a regressive way of thinking that is corrupting and corroding our institutions that calls itself progressive, but actually — and is called woke — but is actually a form of a thin pagan religion,"

It is good to see a tech CEO take the same principled stand against paganism as Emperor Constantine
I did that for several months in 2010. It's too error prone; you will forget to have that configured somewhere and get a merge by mistake.

So then I trained myself on "pull --rebase". I soon realized, I don't want to be combining fetch and rebase. The best way was to just scrub the pull command from the vocabulary.
Heh, rocking a self built tmux/vim setup her myself, but even still I don't think I'm so cynical to think the only reason is for the marketing speak.

I assume they have a reason, I just can't guess whatnot is.
> Today, it seems like my iPad mini will eat 10% or more per day just sitting on a table untouched.

That's abnormal.

If it's malware, do a clean reinstall from DFU mode using Apple Configurator on a Mac.
This. We're doing billions of daily usage aggregations in MySQL with generally less than 5s delay
> The outcome provably does not exist until you measure it.

My preferred interpretation:

There is a density function across all possible realities (Hilbert space).

Schrodinger's cat has equal density of being alive and dead.

The person who opens the box can be happy or sad.

The density of cat being alive is entangled with the observer being happy. And the opposite for the death.

The original cat distribution did not "collapse" or "resolve" per se. The cat is still equal parts alive and dead. But it did become non-uniformly entangled with the distributions of rest of the universe.

Perhaps this is the many worlds interpretation.
It also has materialized views built in so you don't have to run dbt manually
I saw a video of a daredevil who decided to film himself hanging on to the roof of a skyscraper with his fingertips. He did a couple of pullups, but exhausted himself and could not pull himself up back onto the roof. Finally, he let go.

Pulling oneself up onto something by one's fingertips takes a lot of strength. Should have tried that beforehand. (It looks easy in the movies, but those stunt people are very fit.)
"Modern PAs can self-tune the whole system just from playing a short burst of white noise through the system, and listening for the response"

A technology which was developed by/with the Grateful Dead, by the way.

From what I understand they essentially financed the modern PA industry by spending a ridiculous amount of money on sound equipment. People don't realize how much money they made - they were pretty much the top grossing tour band for about 15-20 years, playing about 90-100 shows a year. And they could (and did) use those shows to experiment with sound in a way that probably no other band has done since.

I haven't watched any D&C shows, but I expect their sound quality was just as good, if not better, than the Dead's.
One of the biggest problems I run into with Web Components is how to share common CSS styles between them. I understand that goes against the idea that each web component should be encapsulated, but sometimes this is desirable.

Say you have a component library where each component depends on a base set of styles and you don't want to load duplicate styles for each component.

Is there a best practice around this yet?
I’ve always wondered about this. I get that a keyboard driven text interface can be extremely fast for an experienced user. However, when I think about a lot of the places I see them, they are retail jobs with what I can only assume is high turnover. The text interface has to have a much higher learning curve, which I would think would only pay off for jobs people work in for a long time.
For me as a kid who loved reading and fell out of it by the time I finished school (and then re-found that love decades later), the biggest contributing factor wasn't 30 minutes of reading for school. It was forced reading of books that were uninteresting to me in the first place, and then having to engage with those books in a wholly artificial way.

There's a lot of interesting things to be gleaned from books and certainly expanding students horizons is not in and of itself a bad idea. But school reading is painful, whether it's 10 minutes or 4 hours. You're given pre-selected material with pre-selected lessons to be taken from that material. You are expected to write summaries that explain why the curtains in the foyer of this book were blue (regardless of whether there's actually a reason the author did that or if the lesson planner just hallucinated some meaning out of thin air), and then discuss obvious lessons in non-fiction materials as if there was any other purpose to writing the book in question except to present that lesson. Sometimes you're given books to read that match whatever the current hot social topic is, again without regard to the quality of the books, and then expected to regurgitate the correct opinions on that topic as if the book presented those opinions, and again without regard to what the book actually said (or failed to say).

Reading in schools is presented and treated with the rigor of a mathematical proof, and the soullessness of dispassionate scientific observation of dying rats. It should be no wonder that what that is the experience of children with reading, so many fail to find a hobby or pleasure in it. We don't seem surprised when most students don't do mathematical formulas in their spare time after learning it in school, why should reading be any different?
Going even deeper I've been trying to find good examples of the aesthetic of the "light bar menus" from the Renegade/Final era of BBSes. I've found it to be unexpectedly difficult!
Bob Dennard, inventor of DRAM, has passed away
It doesn't look like the list has been updated since 2021. Perhaps some of the offenders have changed their ways already.
I don't rebase immediately after a git fetch. I look at what is new first. I might not rebase over all of it. E.g. the first three commits may have something I need to pick up, but then after that there may be something I don't want to integrate with yet.
I have the faintest of hope that WWDC will reveal a new hybrid Mac/iPad OS. If it ever happens I won’t hesitate to buy an iPad Pro.
The example I see all the time is creating design systems and dumb components but the major benefit is its a standard that work everywhere and isn't tied around a particular framework (hem react).
> While you're spending all your time and the company's money conducting maniacal quizzes and tests your competition is building features and teams and making progress

If your research on your candidates' profiles is of the same quality as you demonstrated nosing around my profile, I don't think any of your competition should be worried at all ;-)
These dont exist in the US. Gotta make do with whats available
This hasn't been true for a long time.
It’s not even true now. Apple (and by the extension USG and CCP) can read ~every iMessage. The e2ee is backdoored.
I like TUI applications, they allow me to stay in the the terminal in tmux which make everything easy and fast. Here is a list of what I use and I can think of right now:

- neomutt (email client)

- ncspot (Rust Spotify client)

- glirc (Haskell IRC client)

- newsboat (RSS reader)

- calcurse (calendar)
That doesn't sound right, assuming a lane width of 3.5m, they can only resurface roughly 29 square meters an hours?

With all that equipment and manpower.
What makes you think they weren't trying to buy a home when they were younger? You clearly want to own, why do you think they didn't?

Williamsburg (and most of Brooklyn besides Park Slope and Brooklyn Heights) was cheap because it was pretty much a hellhole in the early 90s. Starbucks? Lol. Quality restaurants or cool nightlife? Train to Manhattan. Professional jobs? None. Murder & crime rates at their peaks. Williamsburg costs a lot because current residents benefit greatly from 30+ years of gentrification, community building and services.
are you suggesting that only leet code crammers can tell the difference between quadratic and linear algorithm?
The current Dell version of this: upgrade to 64GB is $1200. Found this the hard way when trying to get my engineering team what I thought would be a $200 upgrade per machine from their stock 32GB Precision laptop workstations.
> The history of computing fascinates me

Have you watched "Halt and Catch Fire?"
I’d recommend getting a stove top popcorn popper and a range hood vent :)

Or if you’re like me and live in an apartment, get a window fan blowing out, and be prepared for your apartment to smell amazing/terrible (depending on your perspective) for a few days
AMD didn't read the wall, unfortunately.
>official Nintendo controllers will eventually drift in the joysticks because they cheaped out on the construction.

Oh for the days of nintendium. I got upset playing Sonic Advance 2 when I was little and overhand-hurled my GBA down an entire flight of stairs onto tile, ran down, picked it up then ran to the next door to throw it down the basement stairs to a concrete floor.

I was suddenly overcome with regret and ran to check my precious device. One small (4mm) stress fracture that did not change the surface of the plastic.
Discussion [0] (31 points, 1 day ago, 6 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40276464
What do you think nixos is missing in this area?
I don't understand how it works.

Did I guess it right that it basically processes Containerfile and instead of producing a .tar artifact (which is what container images usually are) it produces .qcow2/.ami/.raw/.iso/.vmdk file which in case of .qcow2/.raw/.vmdk can be used by a virtualization software to start up a VM with a disk mounted from that file?

Will the changes made inside a session with such a VM persist? or will they get lost (which is the default behavior with containers)?

Container's filesystem may be as narrow as a single binary file, surely a VM with such a filesystem won't be able to boot - where will it take the OS (with the kernel, drivers and other stuff) from?
It's been rumored for years that a touch-optimized version of macOS has been in development for use within iOS VMs.
> For me, having a home office, home computer lab, gardening, astronomy, hiking, casual birdwatching, and turning pieces of wood and metal into sawdust and metal chips are all important and completely incompatible with apartment living.

Why is hiking incompatible with apartment living?
Why not trenta?
Wait till you see my cookbook, "1-minute Meal Replacement Powders", the perfect complement to my self-help/self-sabotage title, "Better Living Through Lower Standards".

YOLO, and no one gets it right on the first try anyway...
Is this you? https://github.com/dilyevsky?tab=repositories&q=&type=source...
Before Apple switched to the iPhone for their POS system they used iMacs with a very ugly app. I think it was called iPOS. I know as a customer I wasn’t supposed to see it, but I was surprised Apple used something like that, considering Jobs always talking about how even the inside of something that no one ever sees should still be beautiful.
pfft --- if Palantir, America, and the world --- are so flimsy that 'woke' is a threat, they deserve to fall.
A mouse is not itself a problem, although most functions should be operable by keyboard. When selecting objects and points on the screen, the mouse is helpful. It is best to have both, although I would think that a keyboard alone is generally better than a mouse alone.
Clean os install? You haven't used windows in a while have you?

Im a Linux guy but am forced to use Mac's and windows every now and then.

Windows has outpaced macos for a decade straight.

Macos looks like it hasn't been updated in years. It's constantly bugging me for passwords for random things. It is objectively the worst OS. I'd rather work on a Chromebook.
> We're living longer. Medicine is getting better at that. But we're not living better.

I think to a degree we live better to a point*, but at a certain point of no return that longevity benefit of modern healthcare can create a poor quality of life where the peace of death would be preferable.
You are fighting an uphill battle, and honestly taking a weird—and insignificant—hill to die on.

I’m hardly the only one which has this reading of the court order[1]. Here is a human rights lawyer speaking with the Times[2] which describes the ruling as:

> Having the World Court say to the state of Israel that it is plausible that Israel is committing genocide will be heard by the rest of the international community, even if Netanyahu doesn’t want to hear it,

Like I said earlier we are actually arguing about the meaning of “plausible”. I’m using this word in a non-legal way while applying it to the legal definition of genocide. The ICJ on the other hand uses it in a legal way, for them plausibility has a legally defined meaning, and using it must meet some specific standard[3].

The conduct in question here is the general behavior of Israel in Gaza, which some of our ancestors say:

> Its not a genocide by any definition

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40268163

or:

> I would not agree this constitutes genocide.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40273408

they are talking about Israel’s general conduct.

South Africa brought in its case many examples of general conduct and accused them of violating the Genocide Convention. Israel—in its defense—did not deny this conduct, but rather stated they weren’t Genocidal, and didn’t violate the Convention, and therefore the Court had no jurisdiction over the case. The court ruled that these allegations “appear to be capable” of falling under the Convention. Meaning that the court thinks that the same conduct we are arguing whether constitutes a Genocide, the ICJ has said: “appears to be capable” of falling under the legal definition of Genocide.

When I, or the NPR, or the BBC[4] say the ICJ “decided there was a plausible case under the 1948 Genocide Convention,” we are using the world plausible in laypeople terms. So I stand by what I said. If we use the legal definition of Genocide, the ICJ has ruled the conduct of Israel in Gaza can plausibly be described as Genocide.

1: https://www.npr.org/2024/01/26/1227078791/icj-israel-genocid...

2: https://time.com/6588931/icj-ruling-israel-genocidal-acts-ga...

3: https://opiniojuris.org/2024/04/05/the-icjs-findings-on-plau...

4: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68108260
Exactly. I get why interviewers want some sort of "can they code" filter. The test can be extremely simple though. If knowing data structures and algorithms were by heart was so central to every developer's work, then they wouldn't be interview questions.
Intercropping viable for optimizing vegetable production on Mars
Product Roadmap
Does pola.rs fix all this stuff?
Pretty useless article, and an even worse clickbait headline for it.

The article focuses entirely on the FDA's 400mg daily dosage guideline for coffee. If you take less than that amount per day, there's various health benefits. However, if you take an unsafe amount of caffeine, over the FDA's limit, you could see negative side effects.

Ok?

Replace caffeine with literally any liquid or solid you consume in your life. There's an FDA limit for how much is safe to consume per day. If you decide to eat more than that, it will not be healthy. This is not news. I'm not sure what the point of the article is at all.
Uhh no they don't, and it's explicitly documented under https://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-14/porting_to.html in "Turning errors back into warnings".

Futher more every warning Explains why the std value affects them.
I thought ultra sonic was defined as being above the sonic range of humans. Genuine question: why would an ultrasonic noise generator create sound audible frequencies? Can it not provide enough power without doing so?